Let's walk and talk: A design case to integrate an active lifestyle in daily office life

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Abstract

Prolonged sitting time in adults has become a major societal issue with far-reaching health, economic, and social consequences. The objective of this study is to reduce sedentary behaviour in office workers by integrating physical activity with work. In this case study, we present Workwalk, a concept to encourage and facilitate office workers to have a walking meeting. This idea arose by merging a traditional health research approach with an iterative design process. With this method, it was possible to integrate behaviour change techniques effectively into an interaction design process.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCHI 2018 - Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Subtitle of host publicationEngage with CHI
Place of PublicationNew York
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc.
Number of pages11
ISBN (Electronic)9781450356206
ISBN (Print)978-1-4503-5621-3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 21 Apr 2018
Event2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2018 - Montreal, Canada, Montreal, Canada
Duration: 21 Apr 201826 Apr 2018
Conference number: 36
http://chi2018.acm.org

Conference

Conference2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2018
Abbreviated titleCHI 2018
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityMontreal
Period21/04/1826/04/18
Internet address

Funding

We thank Rhys Duindam, Roy van den Heuvel, Ezgi Aytekin, Reka Magyari, Britt smulders, Sophie van den Hurk, Jos Raijmakers and Tom de Jong for their collaboration on various stages of the Workwalk project. This research was supported in part by an EIT grant to improve Vitality at the workplace, “ProVITA” [17288].

Keywords

  • Behaviour change
  • Intervention
  • Intervention mapping
  • Living lab
  • Office workers
  • Physical activity
  • Sedentary life style
  • Sitting

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